This week in 2 classes (EC4004 and EC4333), I talked about Lorenz curves, Gini distributions, and income inequality.
The recent OECD report shows the inequality in who’s contributing to income tax receipts.
The chart shows Ireland is a very unequal country when it comes to paying tax– the rich pay most.
(HT Ronan for the update)
August saw the release of the National Income and Product Accounts for 2007. A few choice graphs for y’all this morning. First, we’ve got the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) graph from 2002-2007, valued at different prices.
GDP is really the sum of the price, , of final goods and services, , in a given period, times [...]
A barrage of emails has me thinking about climate change in Ireland, what we can expect, and more importantly, what we might do about it right now. And I’m not thinking about recycling. I’m thinking about policy responses centered around forward planning, a sort of flanking move on the most likely effects of climate [...]
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